Standardization of Ionizing Radiation Exposure Terms and Definitions Based on Sohrabi Universal Radiation Protection System Hypothesis

Radiation protection of workers, patients, public and the environment has been continuously evolved over the past 100 years in order to better design, formulate and regularize a system of radiation protection to be implemented worldwide. In this endeavor, some international organizations and committees such as the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), World Health Organization and International Labor Organization have been highly instrumental such that at present the majority of countries have at least some basic radiation protection regulatory infrastructures at different stages of development. In particular the ICRP, based on the risk estimates provided by the UNSCEAR [1], has made recommendations and guidelines with provision of terms and definitions of ionizing radiation exposures [2]. The ICRP recommendations are highly respected worldwide in order to regularize radiation practices in each country, as I have personally applied it as the Director General of the National Radiation Protection Department in Iran for establishing a National Regulatory Authority. In particular, the IAEA has been highly instrumental in issuing the International Basic Safety Standards on Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources based on the ICRP recommendations and implementation of the requirements of the standards in its over 140 Member States through which this author also has had a share as an IAEA international expert and in particular as technical staff for near 10 years at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna [3]. This author having a share in radiation protection research, development and services worldwide with critical thoughts through half a century, has recently hypothesized a novel Universal Radiation Protection System (URPS) with a number of novel concepts, terms, definitions and methodologies in order to address the many deficiencies existing in the current radiological protection philosophy, concept and methodologies worldwide as are discussed in this paper [2,4-10].